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Standard of California, on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations

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throughout the west invites you to let George do it. Valley Sunset, another adventure of

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George Valentine. Personal notice, changes my stock and trade. If you worry about your life,

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but worry even more about your death, you got a job for me, George Valentine. Write full details.

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Dear Mr. Valentine, I mustn't let anyone know that I'm writing to you, but they're all busy

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repairing one of the winery trucks tonight and I've sneaked off to the safety of my childhood dollhouse.

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They say that some people can feel death like dogs can or coyotes. Well, I know that my uncle will die

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sooner or later, but what if my own brother should kill him or if he should kill my brother?

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Mr. Valentine, it's like when the dust lies in the grapevine so thick you can't tell what's underneath,

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whether there's ripening fruit or a rattlesnake. But there is something horrible that I can't find

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out alone because after all I am only a prisoner in this strange world and it's signed Rachel

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a gadget nick. Any address, Brooksie? Yeah, well let's see it's on the back with the with a little

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map. The closest city is Fresno, I guess. 60 or 70 miles, care of Valley Sunset wineries.

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Because after all I am only a prisoner in this strange world. Valley Sunset.

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Sunset, Valley Sunset. What do you expect out of Hades, my friend? Road signs? Hades?

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Sure, sure. Whose hinges it is hotter than. Yeah, look I'm sorry I flagged you down. But why?

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I'm happy. I noticed you were carrying very valuable freight. What's that? Hello goddess.

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Oh hello. On a day like today you look better than a cold beer. Yes, well get your foot off the

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brass rail. What's the matter? Haven't I got time to say any more before your boyfriend hits me?

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Okay, okay smart boy. Just cool off and tell us where we are. The world, United States, heaven,

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Valley Sunset. What? A gadget nick property. You've been on it for the last five miles. Yeah,

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but we haven't seen the winery or the ranch house. You won't for another five miles straight ahead.

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Oh I see a small type farm. Yes indeed, the kingdom of limbo irrigated by the sweat of man

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dedicated to the sweat of the great. Do you ever make sense? But of course not, I'm a poet.

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My name is a gadget nick. Well, Mr. Gadget. It's a common name. Lots of us around. Mr. Gadget,

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aren't there any uh newses right here on your ranch? Women? Yes, exactly one dear lady.

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The beautiful Rachel. Rachel a gadget nick? The romantic type too. Your sister? No, no indeed.

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Niece. But I'll tell you a tragic secret my friend. Rachel is only 14 years old.

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My childhood has passed me, Mr. Valentine. I'm not like other girls. I had to make you think I was a

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woman to get you here. I had to make you realize my awful plight. Yes, your awful plight. Now look,

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Rachel, you said you were a prisoner. What do we find? You live in a beautiful house. You've got one

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of the finest record collections I've ever seen. But nobody comes to the house. The dress you have on is

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at least sex with Favonius. But I don't like the color. I didn't pick it out. It isn't proper for a girl my age.

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Who says that? That's the way it was in his old country I guess. He picks out everything for everybody.

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He? Joseph, the oldest, the head of the family. The old-fashioned patriarch. My uncle, Mr. Valentine.

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You're... Now don't tell me Joseph has black hair and is tall and has a crooked smile.

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No, no, no. That's my uncle Silvio Agadjenik. Silvio? Wouldn't you know, the poet. He is a poet.

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At least he had a poem published once. Uncle Joseph is awfully proud of you. Yeah, well Rachel...

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Silvio does lots of things. He doesn't waste his time on the farm. And you know, he's the only one

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who ever pays any attention to me. He's a romantic kind of person. Sort of exciting, don't you think?

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Yeah, now look, you said your uncle was going to kill your brother or vice versa. Uncle Joseph and

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my brother Demetrio. But you haven't said... Demetrio's different too. He never talks. He just

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works and he hates. Then he went to agricultural college. He what? Oh never mind. Why? Why? What's

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happened that makes you think all this? The way they've looked at each other the past few days.

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Demetrio and Joseph and poor Silvio. It's nothing definite, Mr. Valentine, but I feel it.

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Wait, look Rachel. And it feels horrible. It does. I'm not inventing it. I'm not lying. I don't want it

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to be there. It's like my music, Mr. Valentine. That record was Debussy and it's wonderful. I love it.

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But I don't want to now. Listen, this is the only record like this I've got. I want to go swimming

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in the irrigation ditches like the other kids around here do. I want to see a football game at

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the Union High School. I want to be like the other children. Rachel!

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Oh Joseph, no don't. Uncle Joseph, please, please don't.

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It is not good music. Oh uncle. You know it yourself, Rachel. Now stop sounding like a circus

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organ in a rainstorm. I can't say that I blame her, Mr. Valentine. Young ladies are not talking to strangers.

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Oh for the love of heaven. And strangers are not talking to young ladies.

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Now get out of here, Rachel. Get out. All right, uncle, yes.

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There is a good pigeon. So you're Joe Oganjianek, huh?

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Yeah. The big boss. The big fist. The biggest fist I've ever threw a ten gallon cask.

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Who are you? The name. You talk to the girl. Why? Take it easy, Marty Joe. Just relax.

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We're here asking questions because, well, I'm a writer.

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You're a what? Yeah, sure. That's it. I'm interested in wineries. That's it.

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Joe Oganjianek, a fool, no? A writer, huh? A real writer. Well, I'm just a...

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Valley Sunset has never been honored before, Mr. Valentine. This is Miss Brooks.

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Yes. Forgive my overalls. So much dirt in the hands is bad, dirt in the eyes is worse, but

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a little dirt in the soul is good. Don't you think?

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Come again? Yeah, there is music, Mr. Valentine. Music inside of a man who lifts the dirt and

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tends the vines. This is something to write about. Yeah, I can imagine.

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I will show you the poem. I will show you the poem in the magazine of my boy, my own boy.

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Your boy? Silvio, my baby brother. Yes, my very baby brother. I raised from a baby.

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These others, they were the name, but they are nothing.

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What's the matter? You think I am crazy, old farmer? No, no, I don't, Joe.

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Then you stay. You will visit the Valley Sunset, huh? You're sure he wouldn't be in the wedge?

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Oh, you're sure there's nothing else special going on?

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What is important and like, Mr. Valentine? Yes, no, no, no, beauty. Who cares about anything else?

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You will stay, huh? Mr. Ragazzinecchi couldn't keep us away.

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But the first one thing to show you, the poem here, my Silvio's poem. You can tell me.

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You are a writer. Let me see it, George. He has had everything, Silvio. There must be someone to

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say these things that I feel that the earth feels. Nuts. I'll show you how the earth feels.

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Silvio, let me smell your breath. Oh, dry up, grandmother. I just don't want them to know how

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bad it is. That's... Oh, you don't have to. Yes, yes, I do. Yes, I do, goddess, I do.

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It stinks. I'm smart enough to know that, but I'm also smart enough to be pretty good at cards and

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pretty good at women and pretty... No, no, please, Silvio. Excuse him. Excuse me.

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Excuse me? Why should anybody excuse me? Who excuses you? Do you know what this old woman did

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this morning, Mr. Valentine? He fixed it so I can't leave it. Be quiet. Be quiet.

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Quiet. Young people must be guarded from trouble. Trouble! Trouble!

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That's the funny part, Mr. Valentine. It's he who's in trouble. Silvio. Sure. Sure.

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The little man is out there now, big brother. He's waiting in his car to see you.

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I did not you say so. Excuse me, please.

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Look at the lion run. Look at him. An all for a man not five feet tall without any hair and a pale

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freckled face. Suppose you clear that up, Buster. Who is the little man? What's going on here?

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What kind of trouble is Joe in? How should I know, writer? I'm just baby brother.

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I don't know any little man who carries a gun.

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Hey, look, your name is Demetro, isn't it? Yes, of course, Mr. Valentine, but I'm busy right now.

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My uncle goes to town on Mondays and I've got to see him first. Joseph? Well, I think he's talking to

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some man outside. I don't care. I've got to see him first. Well, as you said, Silvio suggests.

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Silvio's a loafer. He doesn't know a wine vat from a pickle barrel. Only, why don't you two tell the

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truth? You're not interested in wineries. You're interested in us. Look, all we want. Sure, sure,

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I know. You're friends of Rachel's. Okay. Well, I'm not afraid to tell you what's going on.

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Joe sold some property. Oh, well, what's that got to do? Family property. It belongs to all of us.

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It's like selling a hand. Only a few days ago, Joe goes out on the QT to raise himself 20,000 bucks.

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Get back to the fields. Get back onto the fields where you belong. Now, wait a minute.

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I am head of this family. You will do what Joe says. And I wanted to ask you. I do not have to

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explain to you anything. It is my family, mine. One of the boys was cleaning your car with his

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dry blood on it. Hey, cut it out. Oh, George, stop him. Oh, George, you'll kill him. Get off him.

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Get off him, you crazy fool. You'll kill him. No, stop him. Uncle Joe. Rachel, get out of here.

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Uncle, he's gone. He's gone. Get out of here, pigeon. This is no place for you. What did you say, kid?

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What's the matter? He's gone, Mr. Valentine. It's Silvio. He's run away.

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No. No. No. Silvio can't go. He knows what will happen. It was fixed so he can't run away.

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No, he hasn't. Silvio. Silvio, where are you? Silvio.

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We'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment.

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Now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine. Valley sunset where the heat and

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dust of September stretch from miles and miles over the vineyards of Joe Agagenik.

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You call yourself a visiting curious writer, but you still have a hard time finding out about the

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strange old-fashioned family that lives there. The Agageniks, whose apparent love of the soil

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is only exceeded by their hatred of each other. Well, Brooks, here the big boy's left for Fresno.

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What? Yeah, Joseph. Business at the bank or something. Goes every Monday.

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So we can look around his room all we want. Well, George, how's Demetro?

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I don't know. Bones broken or anything after the beating he took. Well, what was the matter with Joseph?

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He was insane. Oh, I don't know, Angel, but the big guy's so upset he doesn't know what he's doing.

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See, George. What I found in the waste basket. What is it? It says, dear Joe.

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Yeah, let me see that. George, it's a good by note from Sylvia. Yeah.

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Dear Joe, so long, big brother. You'll never see me again. I've taken the $500 emergency payroll money

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you keep in your desk. You will never see it again either. Signed, Sylvia.

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Well, so he stole some money before he went. But it's only $500 and it doesn't tell us about...

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No, no, no, Brooks. See, wait. Look at that note again. The wording, the crude sentences, misspelling.

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Look, Joe. Yeah, yeah. Look on this other stuff. Old invoices. And the ledger's the same.

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It's all the same handwriting, Angel. Joe's handwriting. Yeah. He wrote that farewell note to himself.

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Yeah, but why? Think about it, Brooksie. It's just possible that the light is finally rising on Valley Sunset.

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Mr. Simpson, you represent the law in this country and

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uh, fried blood on a friend, it could mean hit and run, couldn't it? Mr. Valentine, a hard hand

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named Sudsy was wandering around on the highway. Didn't know what hit him. Didn't you check around,

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Sheriff? Would have, but up comes Joe Agadjenik. Says it must have been him. Remembered hitting

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something. Okay, okay. So Joe Agadjenik hit a guy named Sudsy. That's all there was to it.

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Was there any trouble? Any charges preferred? Why should there be? Everybody knows Joe.

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Oh, maybe he paid the hospital bills and bought Sudsy a few cigars. We kept it quiet. A few cigars.

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Would all that cost as much as $20,000? $20,000? All right, then try this one.

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Is Sudsy by any chance a little guy not five feet tall without any hair and a pale freckled face?

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A little man who might carry a gun? No.

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Oh, Mr. Simpson, you're a well of information. Take it easy. Take it easy. Who works for him, though?

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Huh? Ty Wendell's the little guy. Guy Sudsy works for him. Ty Wendell, huh?

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But he's got a permit for the gun. Owns a little road house out here to shake the yokels.

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Nice guy. You don't like him? Oh, I knock over his slot machines once a month.

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Best I've ever been able to do. Why, got any ideas?

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Slot machine. How'd you like that?

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Three lemons.

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Oh, well. Mr. Wendell. Hey, Mr. Wendell.

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Hello. Mr. Wendell, work. Three lemons for you, too, huh?

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But didn't you see anyone, George? Oh, no, no, I didn't. But, Angel, the guy's pockets were inside out.

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His wallet was missing, only he still had on his watch and a diamond ring. Well, George, Ty Wendell

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had lots of enemies who might have... Sure, sure, and I hope that's just the way it is.

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But I can't help remembering that lots of people wouldn't be knowing about a certain $20,000.

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Oh, yeah. I don't want to talk to Simpson until I know where that dough is, what it was for.

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Because if things are what they seem to be, then the murder was figuring on a perfect crime.

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And, Brooksie, there's only one way to break it. Oh, George. Yeah, it's to break a heart.

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Hello, Joe. I've been waiting for you. Is he home, Mr. Valentine? Has he come home? Silvio? No.

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But this car here on the drive, is that Mr. Simpson?

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Ah, yeah, yeah. He just stopped by for a visit, that's all.

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You're pretty late getting back from Fresno. I stopped on the road and talked to a friend.

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I guess you're pretty used to seeing the sheriff's car around here, aren't you?

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Why not? Valley Sunset is a small world. I guess you're used to seeing lots of police cars.

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Mr. Valentine, please, I'm very tired. I guess your brother is almost always in trouble, isn't he? Please, please, no.

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Now listen to me, Joe. A week ago, a guy named Sudsy was swacked on the road.

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He was hit run until you showed up to take the blame for it, to hush it up. Get away from that door.

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But you don't drink, you're not careless. You would have known what you hit. It was Silvio, wasn't it?

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He was the one who could have been nailed for drunk and reckless hit run, prison, everything else.

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I'm going in. I said, listen to me. I just wanted to know one thing, Joe.

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Did the guy Sudsy work for figure it out, Ty Wendell? He's a crook anyway, Joe.

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Did he come around to you to ask for blackmail for twenty thousand dollars?

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Mr. Valentine, I gave Ty Wendell his cash this morning.

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Yeah, I was afraid it was that way.

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It was the only way. But selling some vineyards to raise the money, like my arm, piece of my soul.

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Yeah, that's why you finally got tough with the boy, isn't it?

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You said you fixed it so Silvio couldn't run away.

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How else could I make something with such clay? The boy will come back, Mr. Valentine. You will see.

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Joe Agachinak will make a man of him, a poet of him.

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The things I cannot express, my baby.

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Hold it, Joe. The way you fixed it. I read that letter you wrote to yourself in your wastebasket.

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Of course. I must show Silvio the words that I wanted, the words for him to write.

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Wait a minute. You made him write a letter just like it?

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He confessed to a crime he did not commit, to stealing money from my desk.

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So any time he decided to leave, you could also bring him back by mailing his letter to yourself,

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showing it to the police so they'd be your bloodhounds.

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He knew I would do it. Joe does not lie. He knew I would mail it from Fresno.

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Yeah, but did you mail it?

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I do not lie. The first thing this afternoon by special delivery.

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The first thing this afternoon. And a guy can't be in two places at once.

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So nobody would ever suspect Silvio.

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Joe can raise funds. Joe will protect his baby.

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Now look, you've got to understand something, Joe.

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You've got to understand it before tomorrow morning when that mailman comes.

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There's a time when things happen you can't protect him from. You can't use that letter to him.

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You are a fool, a fool. The world is a fool. I got the letter.

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I got the letter. What?

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The man I talked to on the road, the special delivery. He has given me the letter.

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I'll let Joe work fast. He takes care of his baby.

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Joe, Uncle. Sheriff Simpson's inside asking questions.

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He wants to know where you were early this afternoon.

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He wants to know where Silvio was early this afternoon.

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Huh? Why does he ask about Silvio?

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Demeter, don't tell him. He's out of his mind. Don't tell him yet.

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What about early this afternoon?

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Take it easy. He's just asking questions, that's all.

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Ty Wendell has been murdered.

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Ty? This afternoon?

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No. No.

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No, not my Silvio. Not my baby.

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Silvio, Joe will take care of you.

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Joe will...

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Bad penny's home again, huh, Silvio?

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Sure, Mr. Valentine. Hello, goddess. They located me in San Francisco.

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With the bad news.

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Yeah. Too bad the stroke he had.

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Joe was pretty rough on people, though.

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You talk to Mr. Simpson yet?

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No, no, but I will.

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Ty Wendell got it.

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That's right. Early yesterday afternoon.

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Yeah. Well, that's the way it goes.

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I thought I'd better tell you something before you talk to Simpson.

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Your brother mentioned he'd given Wendell somebody something like $20,000 in cash.

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You see, I found the body.

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The money wasn't on Wendell.

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Oh, I get it. Motive robbery.

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Well, we had a funny thought that probably nobody knew about that money except Joe.

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And maybe you.

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Oh, did you?

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Well, it's just a thought.

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A guy who wanted to leave Valley Sunset but could never squeeze enough dough out of his brother

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might have been tempted by $20,000.

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Well, it just shows how funny thoughts can be, doesn't it?

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Well, I'll go down and talk to Simpson as soon as I do a little straightening up.

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You mean looking around, don't you?

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Like for a letter, maybe?

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Yeah, maybe.

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I know there is one someplace in Joe's coat prop.

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How do you know?

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Mailman happened to mention it. He'd given it to Joe last night.

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Happened to mention it?

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What did you do? Check with him on the phone before you flew back?

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Worth doing, I guess. Make a perfect alibi, that letter.

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Look, what's all this to you, writer?

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That is, it would if you could find it.

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What? You haven't got that letter, have you?

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You didn't take it off at Joe?

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Why do you think your brother had that stroke?

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What? What do you mean?

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Where's that letter? I've got to have it! I've got to have it!

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Just underestimated Joe, that's all.

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He's dead because he realized he failed you.

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He loved you, Silvio.

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And last night, even before I met him,

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he'd already torn that letter up.

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No. No!

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I don't believe it. I don't believe that!

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You have no alibi, baby.

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No alibi at all.

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When the dust lies on the grapevine so thick,

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you can't tell what's underneath.

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Whether there's ripening fruit or

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a rattlesnake asleep in the hot shade.

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Hey, Rachel, look, kid, snap out of it, will you?

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We've got to leave you now.

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I'm all right, Mr. Valentine.

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Of course you are, Rachel.

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Now you'll do all the things you want to.

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You'll swim in the irrigation ditches

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and go to the football games.

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It's poetic, isn't it?

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Huh?

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What I mean is,

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maybe I could say some of those things

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Uncle Joseph thought should be said.

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The vines and the earth and...

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Rachel.

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I think he can do it.

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And Demetrio will take care of the vines.

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Poetry, beauty and grapes.

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You know, Angel,

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I think Joe is going to have the kind of monument he'd like.

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What's the weather going to be like tomorrow?

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Now there's a frequent household question

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and curiously enough, it's a question

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Now ladies and gentlemen, here is Robert Bailey.

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This year's nationwide polio epidemic

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is the most disastrous in our history.

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Money set aside to pay for care of victims

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is being used up at the rate of $100,000 a day.

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Without your help, this fund will be exhausted in two weeks.

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So help America's children today.

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Send your dimes and dollars to polio care of your post office.

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Tonight's adventure of George Valentine

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has been brought to you by Standard of California

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on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations

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and Standard stations throughout the West.

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Robert Bailey is starred as George

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with Frances Robinson as Brooksy.

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Let George Do It is written by David Victor and Jackson Gillis

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and directed by Don Clark.

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Also heard in the cast were Jane Webb as Rachel,

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Bill Conrad as Joe, Tony Barrett as Silvio,

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Joe Duvall as Simpson and Clayton Post as Demetro.

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The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstetter,

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your announcer, John Heaston.

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Listen again next week, same time, same station,

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to Let George Do It.

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This is the Mutual Downley Broadcasting System.

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